Blade control, splittings lines.

[preprius]

Ok its friday night I can go back to the scroll saw and try all these tips and tricks.

I am building flower to feed my flock of hummingbirds.  Then make another flock flying in from the left.

And I want to thank everybody for pitching in there 2 cents. I really appreciate it. 

It was a good topic for us newbies to learn tip and tricks. 

[Woodrush]

On 6/23/2021 at 5:25 PM, preprius said:

i have tried flying dutchman and these pic use pegas. 2/0 skip and 2/0 mgt.

Hawk .

I feel that non skip blades allows more teeth to cut both sides of blades. With skip I think they skipped one side of the blade.

Rotating the wood counter clockwise is worse than rotating the wood clockwise.

Try the pegas super skip. That's all I use

[preprius]

Update. . .

I did make the blade tighter.  in fact a bit too tight. I stuck with mgt 2/0. I ran 1 blade for awhile. the next 2 blades just popped.  So I backed off the tension just a bit. Seems to do much better.  I did not try the 2/0 skip.

Yellow heart and paduak. 1/4 inch. 

Looks like I will need to touch up some places for a better fit.

Now for giving it depth. Need to get some grooves going. 

Again thanks for advice, tips, tricks.

 

Edited June 27, 2021 by preprius

[OCtoolguy]

I just ran across this picture that I had saved on my computer. It might clear up the whole angled cut thing.

[Rockytime]

That is a good one!

[preprius]

Yep that picture is the same as as I thought. 

 It is just a matter of preference and how the blade reacts.  Oh and tension of the blade. gritting teeth because I'm tense.